Internal email: Cognition offers buyouts to its ~200 newly acquired Windsurf staff, with Cognition CEO Scott Wu writing “we don't believe in work-life balance”
Cognition, a two-year-old artificial intelligence coding startup last valued at $4 billion, has offered buyouts …
How 20-something CEOs like Cognition AI's Scott Wu, Cursor's Michael Truell, Cluely's Roy Lee, and Scale AI's Alexandr Wang are swarming San Francisco's AI boom
Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college. They all say they could not afford …
Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded
Based on The Pragmatic Engineer Survey: 3,000 respondents, mostly experienced devs. — Note how other vibe-coding tools are also not popular with this group: [image] Gergely Orosz / @gergely.pragmati...
Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying it will waive 100% of Windsurf employees' vesting cliffs and give them “fully accelerated vesting for their work to date”
techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/c... [embedded post] Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The AI acquisition moves fast. First, OpenAI ditched its Windsurf deal after clashing with Microsoft over IP. — Then ...
OpenAI launches GPT-4.5, its “most knowledgeable model yet” in research preview, initially warning it's not a frontier model and may perform below o1 or o3-mini
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